Restate, the Berlin startup built by Apache Flink's creators, raised a $20 million Series A led by Singular, lifting its total funding to $27 million. The money pays for engineers and a San Francisco commercial hub to sell software that lets AI agents resume work after a crash.
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- Builder 32%
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- Operator 20%
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- Investor 48%
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- Evidence64
- Adoption42
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives58
- Confidence68
A reported $500mn round at $12bn pre-money values the workflow engine at roughly seven times its March 2025 mark. The revenue figure behind it is nine months old.
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- Evidence40
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
Temporal says its annualised revenue has passed $250 million and that its cloud processed more than 1.9 trillion actions in August. At the growth floors the company disclosed, volume is outrunning the revenue it produces.
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- Operator 23%
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- Investor 51%
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- Evidence55
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Temporal closed a $550 million round at a $12.55 billion valuation, roughly 50 times the revenue it reports. The product it sells exists to remember which step of a crashed job already ran.
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- Evidence46
- Adoption71
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives70
- Confidence61
Lightspeed co-led a $550 million Series E on September 14th, seven months after Temporal's $5 billion Series D. The operating metrics behind the markup are Temporal's own: 4,300 paying customers and 1.9 trillion billable actions in August.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives78
- Confidence52
A reported $500 million round at a pre-money floor of at least $12 billion reprices a two-decade systems bet. Teams already running workflows on it should treat this as a procurement event.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+27
- Incentives70
- Confidence54